Romm Shocked at Grist's Audacity

By Keith Kloor | July 31, 2009 10:48 am

How pissed is Joe Romm at Grist? Plenty.

Their decision to act more like a journalistic outlet than a one-note activist clearinghouse (in this instance) now makes it harder for him to make statements like this (in bold, of course):

I can’t imagine why any serious journalist would cite the work of The Breakthrough Institute (TBI) “” except to debunk it.

I’m willing to wager that Romm also put in a few angry, hectoring emails and calls to Grist over this. I hope they told him to stuff it.

CATEGORIZED UNDER: climate change, Grist, Joe Romm, Journalism
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About Keith Kloor

Keith Kloor is a freelance journalist and adjunct professor of journalism at New York University. His work has appeared in Slate, Science, Discover, Nature Climate Change, Archaeology, and Audubon Magazine, among other outlets. From 2000 to 2008, he was a senior editor at Audubon Magazine. In 2008-2009, he was a Fellow at the University of Colorado’s Center for Environmental Journalism, in Boulder, where he studied how a changing environment (including climate change) influenced prehistoric societies in the U.S. Southwest. He covers a wide range of topics, from conservation biology and biotechnology to urban planning and archaeology.

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